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Friday, January 26, 2007

Pick Your Teeth!

The Tongue

It's one of the greatest sins and yet it's something we do dayafter day. Sometimes we don't even realise it. You're justchatting away with your friends and you begin to talk aboutsomebody else. Our whole lives are based around 'Home and Away'and 'Neighbours', soaps based on lying, backbiting etc. But lookat what the Prophet (saw) said about it: The Prophet (saw –may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) was sittingwith his companions (ra – may Allah be please with them all)one day and one of them was speaking about someone who wasn'tthere. As the man got up to leave the Prophet (saw) said to him:"Pick Your Teeth!" "But I haven't eaten anything." The manprotested. "No" the Prophet (saw) said "YOU HAVE EATEN THE FLESHOF YOUR DEAD BROTHER". As Allah tells us in the Quran "Wouldany of you like to eat the flesh of his dead brother? No, youwould hate it." (Ch49: v12)

But What If It's True?!

The Prophet (saw) told us "Backbiting is to say something aboutsomeone they wouldn't like said about them....If what bad yousaid about them is true, then you have backbited and if it isfalse then you have slandered them." (MUSLIM)

If you're still not convinced of how big a sin backbiting reallyis, then look at the punishment Allah has in store for thebackbiters. The Prophet (saw) described: "On the night ofmi’raag (ascension) I passed by some people who had metalhooks in their hands and were clawing at their faces and theirnecks with them. I asked Gabriel (as – peace be upon him)'Who were these people?' He said 'These are the people who eatthe flesh of human beings and disgrace them' (Abu Dawud).

This is how big of a sin backbiting is looked upon and yet wecontinue to backbite without a second thought, next time you lie,talk about somebody, remember Allah (swt) and the Prophet (saw)and put them in front of you before you speak.

Just having a Laugh!

May be we think it's all right to take the ‘mick’ out ofsomeone so long as we say it to their face. 'We'll make fun ofthe way someone talks, walks, or how they look. Allah warns usagainst such behaviour: "O you who believe. Let not some menlaugh at others, it may be the that they are better than you. Norlet some women laugh at others it may be that they are betterthan you. Nor abuse each other, nor be sarcastic to each other byusing offensive nicknames..." (Ch49v11)

Don't forget that Allah made us the way we are, so how can youeven think of making fun of his creation?

Cool to Swear?

Listen to yourself and to your friends speaking one day - nearlyevery sentence will have a swear word in it, thinking it's cooland macho to swear, copying the idols of TV and the cinema. Is itreally 'cool' to swear? The Hellfire is far from being cool.People will wish they were cool then rather than being cool inthis world. Remember! That every time you speak , an angel writesdown what you say, and that one day you will have to answer forevery single word you ever uttered. So if you swear at someonethen it's written down as a sin against you. You're only harmingyourself. The Prophet (saw) said that "Abusing a Muslim is a sinand fighting with him is disbelief." (MUSLIM).

'But sometimes you just have to swear'!

We've all been there - you're just so angry with somebody and theonly way you can express yourself, is to swear at them. Thesolution? ...

Don't get angry in the first place

A man came to the Prophet (saw) one day and said "Advise me". Theprophet (saw) said "Don't become angry. Don't become angry. Don'tbecome angry"....

"When one of you gets angry while he is standing up, he shouldsit down. Then anger will leave him, and if not then he shouldlie down" (Ahmad). So let us follow this beautiful advice of theProphet (saw) and remember that anger is from shaitan (devil). Ifsomeone angers you or swears at you then don't harm yourself bydoing the same but respond in a better way as Allah says in theQuran "Repel evil with what is better. Then he who was your worstenemy will become your best friend." (Ch41v33)

"It wasn't me. Honest."

How often do we say such a phrase or say that "I was onlyjoking". We treat lies as being trivial. However we are told that"Allah's messenger did not hate anything more than lying"(Ahmed).The Prophet (saw) was once asked "Can a Muslim be a coward?" He(saw) replied "Yes." and then asked "Can a Muslim be a miser?"and the reply was "Yes." The Prophet (saw) was then asked "Can aMuslim be a liar?" The Prophet (saw) replied "NO! A Muslim cannever be a liar". Furthermore, he said "Truth leads to virtue andvirtue leads to paradise...Lying leads to wickedness andwickedness leads to the hellfire." (Bukhari). As we know that onelie leads to another ten lies which lead to bad actions. Rememberyou can lie and think that you have got away with it but on theday of Judgement your hands, tongue and feet will bear testimonyagainst you and tell the truth.

But it's only words!

One day one of the companions asked the Prophet (saw) "OMessenger of Allah. Will we be called to account for what wesay?" He replied "May you be lost to your mother (it was aexpression used to grab the attention of the listeners) - peoplewill be thrown, faces down into the hellfire, only on account towhat their tongues said." (Tirmidhi).

Indeed the tongue controls the rest of your body. A wellcontrolled tongue will keep us within Islam but a loose tonguewill destroy us. The Prophet (saw) said "When a person gets up inthe morning, all the parts of his body make a plea to his tonguesaying; 'Fear Allah regarding us, because we follow you. If youare right then we shall also be right, and if you are wrong thenwe shall also be wrong." (Tirmidhi)

Instead of swearing, lying and engaging in useless talk we canuse our tongues in better ways and what better than tellingpeople about Islam. Allah says "Who is better in speech than onewho calls (men) to Allah and works righteousness and says I amone of those who bow down in Islam" (Ch 41v33)

Your tongue can save you as well!

Indeed if you control your tongue and speak good then paradisecan be yours. The Prophet (saw) said "Whoever can guarantee metwo things I can guarantee them Paradise." The companions asked"What O Messenger of Allah?" He replied "What is between his jaws(his tongue) and his legs (private parts)." (Bukhari)

I've lied and backbited, sworn and made fun of others. I must bedoomed I must be going to hell!"

NO! Allah tells us in the Quran: "O my servants who have wrongedthemselves. Never despair of the mercy of Allah for truly heforgives all sins. He is the Forgiving, the Merciful." (Ch39v53)

So if you really repent and turn back to Allah and promise not tocommit the sin again then truly Allah's promise is true and Hewill forgive you Inshallah (God willing).

If you've backbitten someone - go and tell the person whom youbackbited and apologise sincerely and ask them to forgive you.But if you think that the situation will get worse then turn backto Allah sincerely begging for his forgiveness then to make upfor what you said, go around and talk good of him.

The Best Example

As we know that the best person to have ever lived is the ProphetMuhammad (saw) and he is the best of example for mankind. If wefollow him we can never go wrong. Ayesha (RA – may Allah bepleased with her) the Prophet's wife described the Prophetsconduct as follows "He was neither an obscene talker nor a userof bad words. He did not shout nor did he repay evil with evil.He used to forgive people and overlook their sins." (Tirmidhi)

Final Advice: A beautiful saying of the Prophet (saw) that willensure the protection of our tongue. The Messenger of Allah (saw)said "Whoever believes in Allah and the Last day, LET HIM EITHERSPEAK GOOD OR KEEP SILENT" (Agreed upon)

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